Rough music, 77, 78. Royal Agricultural Society of England, 138, 139. _Rus in urbe_, 234-237. Ruskin, 81. Ryknield Street, 156, 295-297, 300. Sabbath-breaking, 163, 164. Sales, by bailiff, 132, 133; books, 133; fruit, 172; sheep, 136, 137; short-horns, 134, 135. Salisbury, Lord, 90, 91. Salter Street, 296. "Satan leading on," 105. Savory, Mrs. A.H., 86, 90, 122-124, 153, 164. Savory, Mr. F.E., 250. Selborne (see White), Church, 94. Seventh Division in New Forest, 280. Scapula, P. Ostorius, 297. School Board, Badsey, 106; chairman, 107; economy, 115; "first duty" of members, 107; grouped parishes, 108; "ignoramus," an, 115; inspectors, 111, 114; mares' nests, 116; reading-book, 114; religious instruction, 109-111; reporters at meetings, 108; site for building, 109; "six little pigs," 114. "Score," derivation of, 16. Scots-fir, 204. Scottish wool trade, 145. Scot, Reynolde, on hops, 220. Scrutator, 253. Shakespeare, local phraseology, 289, 290; local reputation, 120. Shakespeare quoted, on bargains, 126; carouse at Bidford, 179; content, 57; "daring" larks, 263; England if true to self, 66; fairy rings, 47; fool i' the forest, 191; gadfly, 156; hope and despair, 220; lady-smocks, 276; narrow outlook, 19; "pleaching," 59; Providence, 1; sweet of the year, 232. Shappen, derivation, 129. Sheep, 47-50, 158-160. Sheep dipper, 142. Shelley on skylark, 253. Shepherds, 46, 50, 76, 77. "Shepherd's neglect," 48. Signhurst, derivation, 67. Skylark, 263. Sladden, Mr. Julius, 89, 121. Snake and Toad, 282. Snewin, carpenter, 42. Squirrels, 281. Stag-beetles, 277. Steam power, 83. Stockmen often resemble their animals, 162. Stupid places, 292. "Summer dance," 251. "Summer-time," 230, 231. Sunday work, 244. Superstition, 18, 21, 46, 47, 67. Tacitus, 297. "Tantiddy's fire," 33. Taylor, Chevalier, 52. Telegraph wires in frost, 183. Tennyson quoted, on apples, 167; business men, 141; changes of earth's surface, 239; dairy, 153; farming walk, 207; hazels, 202; home-made bread, 211; _Morte d'Arthur_, 1; music, 119; old oaks, 187; onomatopoeic lines, 196; our echoes, 288; politics, 80; royal oak, 195; spring-time, 202; steam cultivation, 83; "summer dance," 251; tea-cup times, 286; town and country, 230. Tennyson at agricultural show, 139. Temper, effect on animals, 74. Temple, Sir Richard, 83-86, 88. Thatching, 148, 149, 200. Thistles, 260. Thomson quoted, 36. Thoreau quoted, 199. Thrashing, 80, 81, 215. "Three acres and a cow," 84. Tom, 29; caution, 33, 34; draining, 31; harvesting, 32, 33; hop-drying, 31; mowing, 30; musical critic, 33; tree-felling, 30. Tom G., 41; accuracy, 42; builder, 44; carpenter, 41; efficiency, 45; epigram, 43, 44; teetotal, 41. Trees, paintings of, 192, 193. Tricker, 50, 51, 52. Trout, 35, 36, 49. Truffle-hunter, 144, 145.
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